MORT is not one of Pratchett's stronger entries in the Discworld series. Taking the old "Death takes a holiday" premise and putting the Discworld spin on it is not quite enough to make this more...
Young Mort is unsuited to follow in his father's footsteps, so it put up to apprentice in another trade. Unexpectedly, Death himself decides to train up Mort as a neophyte Grim Reaper so he can...
Strata & The Colour of Magic were beautifully funny and I highly recommend them. BUT everything after those first two in the discworld series is trash. Too stupid. Like monte python. Slap stick....
Interesting, and strange!, times indeed. Cohen and the Silver Horde are a wonderfully odd group, always good to see Rincewind and his luggage in action [and the luggage has some interesting...
They can't all be great, I guess. Interesting Times let me down. It's disjointed and repetitive, thus boring. Where other TPs contain several story threads each entertaining in its own right,...
A solid start to the series but the best is yet to come
Ankh-Morpork is the greatest city on the Discworld - a flat planet carried through space on the back of four elephants standing astride a giant turtle - and has seen fire, flood, famine and even...
Terry Pratchett is a phenomenal writer! I'll tell you that any of his books, especially the Disc World series are well worth picking up! In my youth I loved the Lord of the Rings books by J.R.R....
A welcome new addition to the Discworld cast of characters
GOING POSTAL presents Discworld fans with a welcome new character: Moist Von Lipwig, a con man extraordinaire, who becomes part of Lord Vetinari's current plans-a very dangerous place to be. But...
Moist von Lipwig is a crock that has been punished by becoming the head postmaster; a real job is something a con never wants. The wit of Terry Pratchett is timeless and funny, but this book as a...
This is definitely not Pratchett's best effort. Again I love Granny Weatherwax but can't seem to find any of the books that she is in that really excite me or that I can give higher ratings too....
Like potato chips only less fattening and much funnier!
Terry Pratchett is the literary gateway drug for fantasy humor and this is the book that got me hooked. Smart, satirical fun-poking that questions the unquestionable. Chock full of Anglican...
I've listened to the first thirteen books of Discworld, finding nearly all of them hilarious and read by some very entertaining narrators (Nigel Planer being exemplary at it) but Tony Robinson's...
Small Gods started off promising, with Pratchett turning his ascerbic wit toward the subject of organized religion - something I've always had a soft spot for. His comparative parody of philosophy...
A little disappointing SOUL MUSIC introduces the reader to Death's grandaughgter Susan (Maybe Pratchett saw Mort as a losing proposition as I did) and gives her chance to step into the family...
Masterful puns, entertaining characters, family business, wizards, guilds, music and Death -- it'd have to be Pratchett -- who else could weave such a collection in any one book. I found this a...
Tiffany Aching is back to learn the serious business of witching in this sequel to The Wee Free Men. Tiffany sets out to do her apprenticeship with Miss Level. While Tiffany carries out the mostly...
I've read nearly every Discworld book and this rating is in comparison to other Discworld books. The plot here is OK, straightforward, and not overly exciting. This may be due to this being...
Being a Pratchett fan to the hilt, I made haste to get the three books, Hat Full of Sky, Wee Free Men and Wintersmith. I knew they were basically kid's books, but it was Pratchett writing, so how...
"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me."
Death has become redundant. The grey auditors of the Universe have decided that the Death of Discworld has become too much a personality and must be replaced, so Death gets his own hourglass...
Terry Pratchett takes on the concept of what would happen if Death took a holiday and stopped taking dead people to wherever it is they go when they die. Since this is a Discworld...
With well over 200 review of this book, there certainly is not much left to say; as the good, the bad and the ugly have already been pretty well hashed out, as has the plot. I am a rather new...
Yay! I finally read a Discworld novel. I was introduced when a friend insisted I watch Hogfather, which I did, and I was intrigued (and slightly confused). So I decided to start at the...
As a Pratchett fan, I knew that it was only going to be a matter of time before I eventually picked up the Tiffany Aching books. I put it off for a while because I've heard both good & negative...
The third in Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series is top notch. Favorite characters return in all their hilarious splendor, with twists, turns, and laughs.
I adore Terry Pratchett, and all things to do with his witches, but I'm not 13 years-old anymore (the target audience for this book). Young Tiffany Aching lacks something that I look for in my...
As a Pratchett fan, I knew that it was only going to be a matter of time before I eventually picked up the Tiffany Aching books. I put it off for a while because I've heard both good & negative...
This was certainly no Harry Potter. It was a cute little story, mind you, but I don't think it was as fabulous as the reviews lead you to believe. I was very excited when I got it. I love...
In this story, a young want to be witch, Tiffany, is sent on a journey to find her stolen brother, Wentworth, who the Queen has stolen. On her journey, she meets tiny blue men named the Wee Free...
I have been reading Pratchett's books in order and have now completed #26... I have to say that reading what has taken him a lifetime to write is actually a very interesting experiment in watching...
When it comes to some airplane/beach reading, Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are definitely not a bad choice if you're a sci-fi/fantasy fan. They're light, not too long, and funny in that...
I'm not giving this a lukewarm review because it's shabby or poorly written or otherwise sub-par, only because it simply didn't turn out to be my taste. "Thief of Time" consists of vignette after...
I'm glad to have done business with this company. the book came in a blink of an eye and it was in great shape. I would enjoy making other purchases with this company.
Eric is a demonology hacker who is trying to summon a demon to answer his worldly desires. Unfortunately, due to a slight malfunction, the demon he summons turns out to be a wizard called...
i love terry pratchett's work; i've read plenty of great discworld books, and even a few that i thought were just mediocre (by pratchett standards) but this book is crap. just a sorry pitiful...
This is my second book in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. After reading Going Postal, I had some high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, this book doesn't flow well, nor does it maintain an...
2 stars only as compared to the rest of Pratchett's novels. As a general book, I'd give it at least 3.5. This book had something missing. Some of it was amusing, secondary characters such as...
Terry Pratchett is a phenomenal writer! I'll tell you that any of his books, especially the Disc World series are well worth picking up! In my youth I loved the Lord of the Rings books by J.R.R....
Although I love the Discworld series as a whole, I'm noticing a pattern that the ones I like the least all have Sam Vimes as the central character. I have nothing against Vimes as a character per...
Is it just me who thinks that the Discworld has lost its life? I always loved Discworld- I read and re-read every book up to Fifth Elephant with gusto, and I loved them like no other books in the...
Like potato chips only less fattening and much funnier!
Terry Pratchett is the literary gateway drug for fantasy humor and this is the book that got me hooked. Smart, satirical fun-poking that questions the unquestionable. Chock full of Anglican...
I've listened to the first thirteen books of Discworld, finding nearly all of them hilarious and read by some very entertaining narrators (Nigel Planer being exemplary at it) but Tony Robinson's...
Small Gods started off promising, with Pratchett turning his ascerbic wit toward the subject of organized religion - something I've always had a soft spot for. His comparative parody of philosophy...
"Jingo" in Terry Pratchett's hugely popular Discworld series, was first published in 1997 and is the fourth to focus on Sam Vimes and Ankh-Morpork's City Guard.
If you want the book Jingo, the version coauthored by Steven Briggs is not it!! It is the script for a play based on Jingo. If you want the book, make sure that you get the book where only Terry...
This is the 21st of Pratchett's Discworld series. Alternatively, it's the 4th book in the Watch subseries ("Guards! Guards," "Men at Arms," "Feet of Clay," "Jingo," "The Fifth Elephant," "Night...
Australia meets Pratchett. And a shape-shifting ape.
The most plot-driven of the Rincewind novels that I've read so far, The Last Continent finds our hapless hero stuck in XXXX, the unnamed and final continent on the DIscworld. And yet, he's needed...
I just finished reading all of the Rinsewind novels and this was the only one that I didn't like. It was full of obscure Australian jokes that only an Australian would understand. The plot was...
I fail to see the point of reviewing Discoworld book, especially one that comes this late in the series. By now, you are a hardcore fan, or you just didn't like Pratchett's style.
Captain Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is not a happy man. He has a thankless job, a bunch of incompetent subordinates and he doesn't get no respect or, more accurately, actually gets no...
The story is excellent, and one of my favorites. The problem with this 10-CD set is the recording: the initial 15 minutes of first disc contains static that makes the sound difficult to hear. The...
When a fairy godmother learns she is about to die, she realises she must pass her vital mission onto a wise and respected witch to complete. Unfortunately, the only witch on hand is Magrat Garlick....
This book is not one of the better ones in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, although the Witches series as a whole is a little weak. On the other hand, a weak book by Pratchett is still a great...
I feel the book's title needs an explanation. Thud is a game sort of like chess combined with Risk or Stratego that's played by trolls and dwarfs on the Discworld. The object of the game is to...
Terry Practhett is one of my all time favourite writers, I've bought every book he's written since Mort and usually make sure to get them in hardcover. However I'm just not that impressed with Thud...
There was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, naturally, a wizard. But, for reasons too complicated to get into now, he also had seven sons. And then another one: a source of magic, a...
One of the greatest fantasy stories every written!
This is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's series on the Discworld - a flat world, supported on the backs of four massive elephants riding on the back of a planet-sized turtle. Anything hilarious...
The back cover makes it sound like this is a sequel to The Color of Magic ("when last seen... Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world"), but it instead appears to follow The Light Fantastic....
The Guild of Alchemists have created a new form of entertainment - moving pictures! Soon Ankh-Morpork is gripped by this latest craze and everyone's trying to break into the business as more and...
"Moving Pictures" for some reason is ranked low on the scale by some hardcore Pratchett fans. Being one to buck a trend, I hereby declare it to be near the top. It's ingenious, well-written, and...
the plot is a little bit superficial and has, like the film industry, not really some depth to think about. it's a discworld book with all this nice highlights of writing style but as the main red...
The condition of this book was supposed to be very good. What I recieved was a book with a damaged spine that looked like it had been hit with a metal bar. The front and back of the book had signs...
Young Prince Teppic is sent forth by his father, the ruler of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi, who sends him to Ankh-Morpork to join the Assassin's Guild. Teppic is successful in his studies...
In Diggers, the nomes living in a quarry found themselves besieged by humans. In the end, Masklin rescued them with nothing short of a miracle. This book is the story of that miracle.
Terry Pratchett takes on Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night" and runs the whole shebang through a wood chipper with hilarious effect. This is one of the best books about the witches of Lancre, starring...
This Discworld novel, part of the Witches subset, plays off of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lancre is invaded by elves, and the only good elf is a dead elf. (In other words, they are uninteresting,...
I have to say, this is my favorite of all of the Discworld novels. Even 'Going Postal' doesn't match it on the list & I loved Postal. I can't put my finger on exactly what it is about this book,...
Someone recommended this to me after saying it was a "return to form" or words to that effect for Pratchett after complaining about the series getting silly for a while. And I have to day after...
Terry Pratchett Discworld novels are always a great and funny read. This one, though very funny at times - Otto the vampire who dies everytime he takes a photo, was great - on the whole I found it...
If you are looking for enlightened entertainment or you want some Zen with your zany, this hilarious offering from the pen of Terry Pratchett is the best choice you can make.
When it comes to some airplane/beach reading, Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are definitely not a bad choice if you're a sci-fi/fantasy fan. They're light, not too long, and funny in that...
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